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Beautiful Bones without Hormones
The All-New Natural Diet and Exercise Program to Reduce the Risk of Osteoporosis and Keep Your Bones Healthy and Strong
by Leon Root
List Price: 15.00


Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Gotham (April 21 2005)
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Osteoporosis is a Killer
At the very least, it can be a crippler. When your bones become too weak or too brittle to handle the stresses of everyday life, they begin to break down internally and then to just plain break, often when you least expect it.

Chapter 1: What Is Osteoporosis, Anyway?
We are in the midst of a global eoporosis epidemic, and most of us don't even know it. For more than one half of the U.S. population over the age of fifty, osteoporosis and low bone mass are a major threat to health and longevity.

Chapter 1: Hormone Replacement Therapy: Yes, No, Maybe
Before going on about osteoporosis in general, I would like to pause to take a look at the effects of hormone replacement therapy on bone health. Hormone replacement therapy provides women with the female hormones, especially estrogen



Book Description

Dr. Leon Root, world-renowned orthopedic surgeon and author of the million-copy bestseller Oh, My Aching Back, presents a 100% natural, HRT-free diet and exercise program for increasing bone density and reducing the risk of osteoporosis.

"Save your bones, save your life." That's Dr. Leon Root's motto after thirty-five years as an orthopedic surgeon. Today, forty-four million Americans suffer from osteoporosis or osteopenia. Having seen scores of people lose their independence and their lives to osteoporosis-related fractures, Dr. Root has become a crusader against this silent killer. Dr. Root's plan is the first and only one written since the Women's Health Initiative Study, which questioned the safety of HRT. His simple, all-natural approach consists of an easy-to-follow diet and exercise program that will safeguard anyone's bones against the incurable and wholly preventable - disease of osteoporosis. The book includes:

  • A 14-Day High Calcium Diet (with foods you know), including variations for Children, Vegetarians and the Lactose Intolerant with an emphasis on forming healthy habits for a lifetime

  • A breakdown of the amount of absorbable calcium in common foods

  • More than sixty simple, calcium-rich recipes for delicious - not "diet" - meals, including calorie count and nutritional information

  • A fully-illustrated, twenty-minute exercise routine that people of any fitness level can do at home

  • Cutting edge information on recent breakthroughs in drug treatment for osteoporosis patients

  • An extensive glossary, plus a list of organizations and websites devoted to beating osteoporosis

No other book on the market comes close to providing the comprehensive, up-to-the- minute information and advice Dr. Root gives in Beautiful Bones Without Hormones.

About the Author

Leon Root, M.D.

Dr. Leon Root is an orthopedic surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, where he also serves as the Director of Rehabilitation Medicine and Director of the Back School Program. A Professor of Clinical Orthopedics at the Weill College of Medicine, Cornell University and a frequent guest on national media, he lives in New York City..

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